sputter

Noun

• an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)

• the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
  • he heard a spatter of gunfire
    

Verb

• spit up in an explosive manner

• utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

• cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
  • The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust
    

• make an explosive sound
  • sputtering engines
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  splutter , spatter , spattering , splatter , splattering , sputtering , spit out , clamber , scramble , shin , shinny , skin , struggle